Project #13 PREWORK



Title of Film or Video:
Ways it showed a UTOPIA
Ways it showed DYSTOPIA
Brazil
  • Whimsical visuals
  • British comedy
  • Rich colors
  • Bright music
  • The dreams Sam has
  • "Aquarela do Brasil"
  • Bureaucratic, totalitarian government
  • Use of shadows
  • Gruesome torture scenes/ that twist at the end
  • Use of dark colors in certain places
  • "Aquarela do Brasil"
The Matrix
  • Use of red
  • Simulation life (blissful denial)
  • Warping of reality done by the characters

  • Use of green, black, and purple
  • The real world (gritty reality)
  • Assimilation theme
A Clockwork Orange


  • Bright colors
  • Use of Beethoven
  • Use of "Singing in the Rain"
  • Over sexualization motif
  • Use of white
  • Alex's happy ending
  • Alex's freedom as a juvenile delinquent and gang member

  • Government corruption
  • No good character
  • Use of "Singing in the Rain"
  • Gray, muted colors + shadows
  • Use of trash
  • The treatment of criminals
  • The constant struggle of power

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